By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
The 21-year-old Baltimore man busted in an FBI sting on charges of trying to blow up a military recruitment center in Catonsville, Md., , was aware of the FBI sting in Portland in November involving a suspected terrorist, but decided to move forward with his plan anyways, the Associated Press reported.
Antonio Martinez, who converted to Islam and goes by the name Muhammad Hussain, was arrested Wednesday. AP reported that Martinez told an FBI informant that he was aware of the Portland incident in which a Somali born teen was arrested after trying to detonate a car bomb in Portland at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony which turned out to be a phony one provided by the FBI.
AP reported that Martinez, after hearing about the Portland case in late November, called the informant and demanded to know who he was.
“I’m not falling for no b.s.,” he told the informant, according to AP. The informant told him to think about the thing overnight and call him, which he did. Martinez said he wanted to move forward.
